ЯK-23 CSAF (KR-17)

Alec K
Got my attention with this one Lukasz 👍😉

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
Welcome, but I'm not surprised at all😉
That's going to be a quick almost OOB build (except for the canopy).

Maciej Bellos
Where do you find these kits?!?! 😉

Oleg Bogolei
You don't search easy ways...)

Tom B.
Well that is an intersting looking plane. I´m in 🙂

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
Welcome everyone, I decided it is time to build some classic KP kits 🙂
@Maciej: Childhood dream, isn't it? Woody

Maciej Bellos
I've had my share of KP kits built. Of them 4 survived, a 48th Su-25, a B-35, a La-7 and a Spitfire, the latter probably tested by my nephews hands, fate unknown.

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
In my case I have 2 of the ones I built as a small kid, namely Yak-23 and MiG-15. I used to fly them around the house and garden, so they lost a lots of details😉, but my grandma stored them later on.
After all most of them (old KP kits) are little nice kits with not so many parts 🙂
Currently I'm in progress of blending the vacu canopy into fuselage as it seems bit too short.

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
Small update: decals are on (wingwalks are the white decals painted grey) and I work on the undercarriage currently.
Macro really has no mercy, the line dividing the fuselage halves in the front is not visible in the reality (at least to me)😉

Gordon Sørensen
Great looking Yak, Lukasz! The NMF is very nice! I have the old KP MiG-15 UTI in the stash to do one of these days.

Thomas Kolb
Nice and clean build, Łukasz!

Stefan Schacht
nice to see the build of this old kit 🙂

Alec K
Looking awesome. Did Poland use any of these?

Maciej Bellos
Yes Alec they did, from 1951 onwards.

Stephan Ryll
Nice progress Lukasz 👍

Alec K
Thanks Maciej 👍

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
Thanks y'all 🙂
Thanks Maciej for your quick answer, I intend to build a (civilian!) Polish one using the SH kit at some point in the future 🙂

ForestFan
Super!

Erik Leijdens
Nice subject 🙂

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
Thanks folks. Currently trying to rig the thing. I was advised to use Mig's 0.01 thread, but it's behaviour is extremely unpredictable and frustrating.

Thomas Kolb
Have you tried the Uschi rigging thread? I used their 0.01 superfine some time ago and it worked pretty well.

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
I assume this is the very same thing. The point is it's too tine for me - I have to try the thicker ones.

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
Finished! (for the price of this huge CA blob on the main antenna) Now it's time for Avia CS-199 🙂

Simon Zhang
Cool

Thomas Kolb
That Flora turned out really sweet! I really like these first generation jets, they all looked so different from each other. Nice build! BTW what is the hangar backdrop in the pictures? It looks really convincing.

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
Thanks Simon & Thomas
The hangar is made by Polish company GPM, I built it some time ago (Hangar | Project by Woody (1:72)) and keep on using it as a background. Some people here are already bored by it, so I have to build the Eurofighter hangar soon 😉

Neuling
Beautiful! Hangar`s still okay for me!

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
Good to know, thanks 😄

Alec K
Turned out great Lukasz 👍

Łukasz Gliński Forfatter
Diky Alec 🙂